Snowball Gun
Load snowballs and lay waste to your foes with Christmas cheer.
The Snowball Gun is a toy gun in Rust. Its default ammo is the Snowball. It fires 400 shots per minute from its 50-round magazine. It cannot be crafted, and Gingerbread Man drops it most often, at 6.4%.
About the Snowball Gun
A full reload takes 1 second, and switching to it takes 1 second. Aiming down the sights narrows its spread from 5.05° to 3.25°, 1.6 times tighter than firing from the hip.
There are 2 kinds of ammo for it: Snowball and Snowball Gun Ammo. The Snowball Gun Ammo flies faster, at 25 m/s against 10 m/s for the Snowball.
From full condition it fires 800 shots with the Snowball before it breaks, which is 16 full magazines.
Snowball Gun damage and stats
Loaded with the Snowball, the Snowball Gun deals 150 damage per second.
How to repair the Snowball Gun
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 7 × High Quality Metal, and no blueprint is needed.
×7 
Snowball 25 149.7 3.3° 10 ×1.510–40m 
Snowball Gun Ammo 11 65.9 2.3° 25 ×1.520–100m Damage & DPS are per-shot with the listed ammo; aim cone is the spread in degrees, velocity in m/s.
What the Snowball Gun recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 12 × High Quality Metal and 1 × Metal Pipe for one.
×12 
×1 50% 50% ×15 ×1 80% 
×18 ×2 75% 25% 
×10 ×1 20% 
Medium Present 6.4%×1 The chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Snowball Gun
Gingerbread Man has the best chance at 6.4%, followed by SUPER Stocking at 1.9%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
